Alerts of “black rain” in Argentina

After the massive forest fires in Bolivia, Brasil and Córdoba (Arg province) have caused a large part of Argentina to have ashen skies, now the incoming rains will catch all that smoke.

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    2 months ago

    Are argentineans also burning their fields in preparations for the oncoming sewing season like in São Paulo?

    Here have been a week with the worst air quality imaginable in account of the idiot governor who just gave a free for all burning season, instead of how it used to be done, that is, giving scheduled permissions to let the smoke dissipate before a new burning field ignite.

    • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOPM
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      2 months ago

      In Arg, in the main agricultural areas most farmers don’t do burnings/controlled burnings. The source of the ashen skies in all the Parana/Uruguay/Plata basin are wild forest fires in Bolivia and Brasil. Idk if they originated as intentional, but they are out of control.

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        2 months ago

        When I lived in Buenos Aires, 2007-2013, I remember a year when they did it (maybe 2008?) and Buenos Aires looked like Silent Hill for like a week (there was also a tornado in the Money River (Rio de la Plata) and a day when it went totally dark in the middle of the day. It was a very strange year. Edit: that year also had ice storms that destroyed a lot of cars)

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          2 months ago

          Maybe that’s the year of the Paraná/Silver river delta grasslands fires?

          Anyways Bs As can be very foggy

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I heard that either this was done by the Bolivia/Brazilian far-right or the organized crime (which has ties with the far-right anyway). I think Chile is currently helping Bolivia.